contains 452 rooms. A number of affordable rooms have been secured under the KAAS scheme.
== Notable people ==
=== Notable alumni ===
There are 14 Nobel laureates who were associated with either King's College London or one of the institutions that have since merged with it. Notable alumni in the sciences include Nobel laureates Peter Higgs (Physics), Sir Michael Houghton (Medicine) and Michael Levitt (Chemistry). Others include Sir Francis Galton, polymath and pioneer of eugenics. Alumni in performing arts include impressionist Rory Bremner; Queen bassist John Deacon; and Oscar winners Greer Garson, Edmund Gwenn and Anne Dudley. In law, alumni include Karim Ahmad Khan, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, and Patrick Lipton Robinson, a judge of the International Court of Justice. In literature, alumni include the dramatist Sir W. S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan, and the writers Thomas Hardy, Sir Arthur C. Clarke and Virginia Woolf.
Notable King's alumni to have held senior positions in British politics include two Speakers of the House of Commons (Horace King and James Lowther), and one Foreign Secretary (David Owen). King's has also educated numerous foreign heads of state and government including two presidents of Cyprus, Tassos Papadopoulos and Glafcos Clerides; Marouf al-Bakhit, Prime Minister of Jordan; France-Albert René, President of the Seychelles; Sir Lynden Pindling, Prime Minister of the Bahamas; Godfrey Binaisa, President of Uganda; Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz, Prime Minister of Iraq; Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada; and Sir Lee Moore, Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis.
King's alumni in religion include Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Archbishop of Cape Town; George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury; and Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. While in the military, alumni include Sir Tony Radakin, Chief of the Defence Staff; Lord Harding, Chief of the Imperial General Staff; Sir Michael Wigston, Chief of the Air Staff; and …
